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Tuesday, May 22, 2012

Lingerie Worker Claims, Fired For Being 'Too Hot'

Wearing
a form-fitting sequined black dress and black leather, sequin-studded boots,
Lauren Odes, 29, said her Orthodox Jewish employers at Native Intimates told
her that outfit and others like it were "too hot" for the warehouse.

We
should not be judged by the size of our breasts or the shape of our body,"
Odes said.

Lauren
Odes, 29, did data entry at the Native Intimates warehouse for a week in late
April. She says that she asked what the dress code was, and was told just to
check out what everyone else was wearing. "So I did," Odes (pictured
at left) said at a press conference on Monday. "The dress was very casual
athletic wear to business attire."

But
within two days, Odes says her supervisors began cautioning her that her
outfits were too provocative, her lips and hair "too fresh," and her
breasts too big. She was allegedly advised to tape down her chest, and on one
occasion was given a "humiliating" bathrobe to wear over her clothes.

Finally
she was reportedly told, "You are just too hot for this office.

Odes
said she felt her wardrobe was appropriate for a business that sells
"thongs with hearts placed in the female genital area and boy shorts for
women that say 'hot' in the buttocks area.

Media
photographers climbed on chairs and crashed into each other as Odes held a pose
and Allred held up a series of purple, black and brown outfits she said also
led to the woman's dismissal.

Now
celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, who has battled O.J. Simpson, Arnold
Schwarzeneger and Tiger Woods, has taken up her cause. "We should not be
judged by the size of our breasts or the shape of our body," Odes was
quoted by Reuters as saying.

She's
filed a gender and religious discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission in New
York.

"I
understand that there are Orthodox Jewish men who may have their views about
how women should dress," Odes said, "... but I do not feel that any
employer has the right to impose their religious beliefs on me."

You
might expect a lingerie warehouse to have a pretty lax dress code for its
employees. But a New Jersey
woman claims that she was fired for her "too hot" outfits. Her
Orthodox Jewish employers didn't appreciate her busty physique and form-fitting
clothing, even thought they sold, in her words, "thongs with hearts placed
in the female genital area and boy shorts for women that say 'hot' in the
buttocks area."

A New Jersey woman said on Monday that she was dismissed
from a temporary job at a New York
lingerie warehouse because her male employers felt she was too busty and
dressed too provocatively for the workplace.

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